Scene Size Up
Scene Size Up begins
What is Dispatched
Mental Status is evaluated by
What is AVPU
The first set of letters in Primary patient
What is A for Airway
The rate of breathes per minute for adult at rest
What is 12 - 20 bpm
The three components of circulation
What are Heart, Vessels, Fluid
This medical term means difficulty breathing.
What is Dyspnea?
Scene should be assessed for
What is Safety
Alert is confirmed by
What is Person Place Time Event
How is the Airway opened for Medical patient
What is Head Tilt / Chin Lift
With no chest injury suspected, to evaluate breathing the EMT should observed and observe
What is Look, Listen and Feel
What are the pulse locations for upper extremities
What is Radial and Brachial
This term is the finding of a patient with bluish-purple skin.
What is cyanotic?
Assessing for patients
What is the Number of patients
The U in the AVPU mnemonic
What is Unresponsive
How long you should suction in an adult
What is 10 seconds
When a chest injury is suspected, the EMT should use the following steps to evaluate breathing in the Primary Assessment
What is Inspect, Auscultate and Palpate
The pulse locations for lower extremities
What Popliteal and Dorsalis Pedis
The meaning of this mnemonic when assessing the patient's pupillary response
What is PERRL - Pupils Eaquil Round Reactive to Light
M.O.I. is
What is Mechanism of Injury
Most common cause of airway obstruction
What is tongue
Sets to maintain a clear Airway
What is Positioning, Manual Suctioning and Mechanical Suctioning
Expiration is how many seconds
What is 1 second
The Heart Rate for adult at rest
This term is used to describe a heartbeat that is above 100 BPM in adults.
What is Tachycardia?
This term refers to the specific medical condition or problem that a patient is experiencing.
What is the Nature of Illness (NOI)?
AEIOU TIPS
What is Alcohol, Epilepsy, Insulin, Overdose, Underdose.
Trauma, Infection, Psychogenic and Stroke
What is the length of time for inspiration
What is 1 second
Landmarks for listening to lung sounds in the Primary assessment
What is Midclavicular line and MidAxillary line
The purpose of the Primary Patient Assessment
What is To Detect and Treat all IMMEDIATE Life Threatening conditions.
This term means sweating, especially to an unusual degree as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug.
What is diaphoresis